For over 10 years, I have been using an ergonomic, adjustable, swivel office chair with an Orthia cushion to protect my back. Over the years, the leather aged and cracked in places. That’s why I decided to replace it, but I’m so pleased with this chair that I bought exactly the same model in a different color. Just by coincidence I’ll receive the new one this afternoon…

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... with a backrest and feet support specially designed and perfected by me over several months. One of my several #1 reasons for not considering inhouse positions. No workplace standard in the world* would permit this setup, and it's the only one I've ever found adequate to my physique.

I don't even own a chair, not one - for visitors, I can always borrow some from next door.

*Japanese colleagues, prove me wrong?

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Not exactly sure what your hinting at but in Japan, you will find very, very few people seated on chairs working in front of a computer on a table directly placed on 'tatami' mats in Japan. The chair and table legs would ruin the mats very quickly.
And, it would be extremely rare for people to sit cross-legged or 'seiza' style (sitting straight up with legs bent inwards underneath) on 'tatami' as this can be quite painful when endured for long periods of time.

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I meant to ask, is it permissible in Japan to work sitting on the floor, maybe with a laptop? Or will the office force you to use a chair and table? I've seen photos of Japanese families having dinner without chairs, but all photos of Japanese offices looked just like German ones.

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I meant to ask, is it permissible in Japan to work sitting on the floor, maybe with a laptop? Or will the office force you to use a chair and table? I've seen photos of Japanese families having dinner without chairs, but all photos of Japanese offices looked just like German ones.

1 - I have never heard of any Japanese office worker or otherwise asking to sit on the floor in Japan.
2 - "I've seen photos of Japanese families having dinner without chairs" That's at home where you will generally find 'tatami.'
3 - "but all photos of Japanese offices looked just like German ones." That's the generally accepted norm worldwide, not just in Germany.

Clicked the wrong button before I could finish. Final post is below. HTH

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then I'm really living on the wrong planet, not just on the wrong side of this planet. I can't understand why chairs were even invented. I want my feet to be on the same level as my backside, not one level down!

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So, your backside will probably get cold and you will give up after 30 minutes. You will never see (feel) heated floors in Japan like they are heated in Korean homes.

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I meant to ask, is it permissible in Japan to work sitting on the floor, maybe with a laptop? Or will the office force you to use a chair and table? I've seen photos of Japanese families having dinner without chairs, but all photos of Japanese offices looked just like German ones.

OK....

1 - "is it permissible in Japan to work sitting on the floor, maybe with a laptop?" In the comfort of your home? You can do what you like there.
2 - I have never heard of any Japanese office worker or otherwise asking to sit on the floor in Japan. Hence, the title of this comment. I suppose if you really wanted to you could but (i) Japanese office floors are notoriously uncomfortable and (ii) you most probably get stared at a lot. FYI, I've never seen people working seated on an office floor here in Japan. And, I've seen lots of offices.
3 - "I've seen photos of Japanese families having dinner without chairs" That's at home where you will find 'tatami' and most people (families) will sit around a low table to eat.
4 - "but all photos of Japanese offices looked just like German ones." That's the generally accepted norm worldwide, not just in Germany.

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... with a backrest and feet support specially designed and perfected by me over several months. One of my several #1 reasons for not considering inhouse positions. No workplace standard in the world* would permit this setup, and it's the only one I've ever found adequate to my physique.

I worked in-house for 20 years and we all had very different chairs, ranging from traditional chairs (the majority?) to saddle, knee, ball and wheelchairs to no chair at all (standing platforms). We all worked in individual offices and, provided the work was done on time, we could sit where we pleased, so in theory one could sit on the floor…

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Swiss (exercise) ball. Constant slight adjustments keep back and hips happy and aid balance, which comes in handy when negotiating tightropes across crocodile-infested gorges as I am increasingly being asked to do these days. I blame Brexit.

No chair can match this. My partner stands, but that gives me worse backache after a bit than a chair. My partner also gives me a headache after a bit, but that's another story.

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